Fewer Crops Are Feeding More People Worldwide – And That’s Not Good

November 30, 2017 Food Freedom

By Karl Zimmerer, Pennsylvania State University One day last March I talked with Juliana and Elisa, a mother and daughter who farmed just outside the city of Huánuco, Peru. Although they had only one acre of land in this mountainous landscape, they grew dozens of local varieties of potatoes and corn, along with other crops. […]

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Why Is This Raw Milk Farmer In Jail?

November 17, 2017 Food Freedom

By Heather Callaghan, Editor I stand with Michael Schmidt. I love him, a mass food freedom community loves him and I’m pretty sure our hundreds of thousands of readers love him. If you’ve seen his face before it was probably alongside a wine glass filled to the brim with raw milk. That particular iconography might as well […]

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Florida Court Strikes Down Front-Yard Edible Gardens for Miami Shores

November 13, 2017 Food Freedom

By Jason Erickson Apparently the right to feed yourself and your family is indeed not a fundamental one, as a Florida attorney previously declared. A longstanding battle between 17-year homeowners at the Village of Miami Shores, Tom Carroll and Hermine Ricketts, appears to have reached its sad conclusion. In 2014, the couple was advised by […]

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California City Demands Church Stop Feeding The Homeless

November 12, 2017 Food Freedom

By Vic Bishop It’s tough to say when our societal values shifted so dramatically, but for some reason now, government at large has decided that charity for the homeless is a crime. In a society with such stunning abundance, efforts to feed the homeless are being met with legal challenges and even police action in […]

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Report Shows Dire Consequences of Corporate Consolidation In Global Food Chain

November 9, 2017 Food Freedom

By Jessica Corbett “The fight for market share is achieved at the expense of the weakest links in the chain: farmers, and workers.” As the European Commission considers a proposed mega-merger between Bayer and Monsanto, new research published Tuesday illustrates how corporations are monopolizing the global food system—jeopardizing consumer choice, labor conditions, and efforts to eradicate world hunger. “We […]

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How This Couple Earns Six Figures Per Year Organic Farming On 1.5 Acres of Land

November 6, 2017 Food Freedom

Can small-scale farming in the modern age really generate enough income for the average family to make an honest living? For Jean-Martin Fortier and his wife, Maude-Hélène Desroches, it does. The Canadian couple grows beets, broccoli, salad greens, carrots, and various other types of produce on their modest 1.5 acres of land, from which they […]

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Is Your Dinner Steak “Glued” Together?

November 2, 2017 Food Freedom,Video

By Catherine J. Frompovich The food industry is extremely innovative at reducing waste products and salvaging any last bit of animal tissue aka meat. Transglutaminase is an animal-blood enzyme used as “meat glue” to create a prime filet steak, which many cooks and eaters can’t tell the difference. “Meat Glue” is a naturally occurring enzyme […]

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10 Essential Survival Seeds You Must Stockpile for Protection

October 25, 2017 Food Freedom

By Tess Pennington There are many different types of emergencies that can have long-term repercussions on our way of life. One of those impacts is on our food system. Due to our aging infrastructure and roadways, emergencies can stall the delivery of goods, leaving a community without food for a given period of time. As […]

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Latest Fear Mongering About Self Sufficiency: Salmonella in Backyard Chickens

October 21, 2017 Food Freedom

By Joe Jarvis Two years ago I moved to Florida from Massachusetts. When people found out I was moving, they would often immediately remark, “Get ready for the brutal heat and humidity!” It was their first instinct to bring up any possible negative about moving to a much more pleasant climate. About a year later, […]

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Big Corps Selling Lower Quality Foods To Poorer East EU Nations

September 20, 2017 Food Freedom

By Heather Callaghan, Editor A Slovenian and an Australian sip a Coca-Cola at the same time, although worlds apart. The latter enjoys a typical formula. But the former’s is exploding with elevated sugar content and fructo-glucose. The Coke in Prague might dance a more muted jig on the taste buds than the one in London. What happened? People have […]

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Feds Threaten Maine Food Sovereignty Law; Governor LePage Caves

September 14, 2017 Food Freedom

By Michael Maharrey Maine Gov. Paul LePage has called for a special emergency session of the legislature to roll back a food sovereignty bill he signed into law earlier this year, after the federal government threatened to take over meat and poultry inspection in the state. Sen. Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) sponsored Senate Bill 725 (LD725). […]

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Class Action Suits Against Monsanto Mount as American Farmers Lose Millions of Acres of Crops

August 30, 2017 Food Freedom,Video

By Alex Pietrowski A growing amount of anger and outrage against Monsanto has culminated in a number class action lawsuits being filed against the agrochemcial giant. At issue now are the devastating effects of dicamba, a potent herbicide formulated for genetically modified seed. The product has a tendency to drift onto neighboring crops after being applied […]

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29 States Allow Big Ag To Act As Seed Legislator?

August 23, 2017 Food Freedom

By Heather Callaghan, Editor States like Oregon, California, Texas, Montana and Iowa just simultaneously nuked the ability to have seed laws. Claws of Big Ag found puppeteering legislators. With little to no fanfare at all, the states passed “seed preemption laws” that essentially shut down public discourse on seeds laws – including the use of genetically engineered crops. There […]

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Farming Programs On The Eastern Seaboard

August 17, 2017 Food Freedom

Programs to Help Aspiring Farmers Bring Vision to Fruition If you’ve ever fantasized about becoming a farmer, you’re certainly not alone. Many of us idealize what it might be like to live off the land, working in concert with nature to grow food that will nourish our families and communities. Recently, the Chesapeake Foodshed Network, a […]

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America’s food industry is getting a makeover. The driver? Millennials.

August 16, 2017 Food Freedom

As Millennials age and replace the Baby Boomers as the food industry’s main consumers, a new American diet that rejects processed foods is becoming increasingly popular and shifting the current supply chain. At present, only 15 percent of U.S. farmable land is devoted to growing the fruits, legumes, and greens that this generation is hungry for, […]

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The Iowa Seed Savers With 30,000 Seeds Starting From 2 Seeds

August 15, 2017 Food Freedom,Video

By Justin Rhodes Do seeds carry a story – can they connect us to our past? At Seed Savers Exchange in Iowa, it ALL started with two seeds. Now, they collect and exchanges 30,000 varieties! Hear how it all got started and be inspired to save seeds yourself. Note: Follow the captivating interviewer, Justin Rhodes, as […]

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How Good Food and Strong Social Ties Will Save Society

August 6, 2017 Food Freedom

Op-Ed by Joe Jarvis Good food plus interesting people is a recipe for happiness. As humans evolved, we lived in tight-knit self-sufficient communities. Nomadic hunter-gatherers spent their time foraging, hunting, eating, and playing together. It’s tempting to romanticize those days, but they came with some pretty harsh realities. As stressful and lonely as the modern world can be, […]

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U.S. Inadvertently Proves Free Trade Doesn’t Work; Sanctions Made Better Russian Ag Eco, Food Independence

August 3, 2017 Food Freedom

By Brandon Turbeville Over the past few decades, Americans may well have become the most heavily propagandized people on the face of the earth. This propaganda push reached a fever pitch after 9/11 and has intensified with each passing year, with Americans becoming more and more disconnected from reality by the month. In 2017, hysteria and […]

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The Lurid Reason America’s Franken-Chickens Must Be Washed with Chlorine

August 2, 2017 Food Freedom

By Heather Callaghan, Editor Let’s say you like to eat chicken and you’re all right with that. You’ve heard about arsenic in chicken feed and chicken imported to China and back again, but you’re still amenable to that. Chances are you probably wouldn’t be OK with why U.S. factory farm chicken must be washed in chlorine. Recently, the UK was […]

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First of Its Kind “Food Sovereignty” Law Just Legalized Local Food Trade WITHOUT Govt

July 21, 2017 Food Freedom

By Justin Gardner Maine has taken a bold step toward freedom, becoming the first state in the U.S. to enact a ‘food sovereignty’ law giving communities power to regulate their local food economy. The bill, titled An Act To Recognize Local Control Regarding Food and Water Systems, was passed unanimously by the state Senate and […]

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